Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)

[hankaye]

Donald, Howdy;

That's a true beauty... Looking forword to your "new" ones.

hank

[letumgo]

Donald - Wonderful fly! Love the segmentation from the Lycra rib. I am looking forward to seeing your backlog of ideas.

[tie2fish]

If your new ideas produce anything as nice as this one, Donald, we're all in for some real treats.

[willowhead]

i can't believe this thread got past me............fantastic tying, both Ray & Donald. William.....i was just reading where Hidy was talkin' bout Synthetics bein' no good for flymphs............my feelin' is that back in his day, the synthetics they had mighta been a bit lame......but we have things nowdays that even he would probably wanna give a try. So go for it Bro. ".......try it, you might like it."..... ........new catagory.....Flymph Attractors" i been tyin' 'em for over a decade........and you'd be surprised how well they fish.....presentation presentation presentation....."think rffles."

[William Anderson]

Mark, between these and the braided sparkle flies Ariel just posted, I'm going to have to work on something like this when I get my tying stuff out. It's been a bit. I do have a surprise for you in the Jazzflies thread.

w

[swellcat]

Hard to imagine this not working for crappie and white bass.

Soft-hackles for warmwater? That's goodness.

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[Kelly L.]

I guess I missed this thread before. Excellent flies Ray. Did you use head cement or something over the baby legs for the rib? I like all the flies presented here. Swellcat your fly will no doubt catch warm water fish too. Great job. I need to try this pattern....

[Old Hat]

What size are you tying that in for crappie?

[chase creek]

Swellcat, that one looks like just the ticket for the spring white bass run on the Maumee river in Toledo. It's snowing right now, and gonna get down to 15 below in a day or so. Excellent tying weather! I might have to interrupt my Hare's Ear Nymph marathon at the vise to try a few of these.

[chase creek]

Ray, forgot to add - I tied up a bunch of the POP flies when you first came up with them. I tied them in orange and red. When i showed them to the Brookies up North, they wouldn't leave them alone. I still carry a few in my small stream box. "killers"